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Jeremiah 18:17

What does Jeremiah 18:17 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 18:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

As an east wind I scatter them before an enemy, The neck, and not the face, I shew them, In the day of their calamity.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

As a burning wind will I scatter them before the enemy: I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their destruction.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

As with an east wind will I scatter them before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

Context

v.16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

v.17This passage

v.18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 32:35

    Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

  • Proverbs 7:25

    Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • Deuteronomy 28:64

    And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.

  • Jeremiah 46:21

    Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

  • Psalms 48:7

    With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.

  • Jeremiah 2:27

    who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

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